Well, it's my blog and I won this tournament so I figured I have a right to copy the report here for posterity. Thanks to Matt Hirsch for running the tournament, it was a lot of fun.
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We had 18 players for our Convergence: TempleCon qualifier 3R+F tournament on February 4th, 2012 at TempleCon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI. The final game came down to a 2-2-1 split, but Adam Hulse won due to higher tournament seed.
1. Adam Hulse 2gw, 6vp, 148tp (won coin flip), 2 final vp
2. Dave Zopf 1gw, 7vp, 2 final vp
2. Matt Morgan 1gw, 5vp, 1vp
2. Sonam Adinolf 2gw, 6vp, 148tp (lost coin flip)
2. Jason Wolfson 1gw, 4vp, 126tp
Matt Hirsch 1gw, 6vp (chose to drop from final)
Ben Peal 1gw, 4vp, 106tp
Jen Goldberg
Peter Oh
Selen Turkay
Chris Robert
Tony Luneau
Jamey Patten
Kevin Mergen
Nicholas Fofonoff
Kevin Mullen
Peter Kapsalis
Josh Feuerstein
Finals seating:
Adam->Sonam->Dave->Matt->Jason
Qualified players from this event:
Adam Hulse
Dave Zopf
Matt Morgan
Sonam Adinolf
Jason Wolfson
Thanks to all for playing! Special thanks to Grant and Ximon for another fantastic TempleCon!
-Matt H.
Convergence: TempleCon (Qualfiier)
Warwick, RI
February 4th, 2012
3R+F
18 players
Adam Hulse
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Deck Name : Ghouls Occupy Wall Street
Author : Adam Hulse
Description : Adam Hulse Winning Deck (Boston Qualifier 2012)
Even the ghouls have begun to protest! The ring leader is a very charismatic Smiling Jack. Very peacefully mind you.
But when you get them riled up they go to your home and assault your corporations with sticks and bats!
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 6 average: 4.41667
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2x Corine Marcon 6 AUS VIC ani Tzimisce:2
1x Caliban 6 ANI AUS VIC Tzimisce:2
1x Ana Rita Montana 5 VIC aus dom obf Tzimisce:3
1x Devin Bisley 5 ANI AUS vic Tzimisce:2
1x Elizabeth Westcott 5 AUS ani cel vic Tzimisce:3
1x Rose, The 5 PRE VIC aus Tzimisce:3
1x Lolita Houston 4 VIC aus Tzimisce:2
1x Terrence 4 ani aus vic Tzimisce:2
1x Wendy Wade 3 ani aus Tzimisce:2
1x Horatio 2 vic Tzimisce:2
1x Piotr Andreikov 2 aus Tzimisce:3
Library [76 cards]
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Action [7]
1x Abbot
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
1x Army of Rats
2x Psychic Projection
2x Zillah's Tears
Action Modifier/Combat [4]
4x Plasmic Form
Ally [13]
8x Asanbonsam Ghoul
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Ossian
1x Vagabond Mystic
2x War Ghoul
Combat [12]
1x Breath of the Dragon
2x Chiropteran Marauder
2x Dodge
1x Meld with the Land
6x Weighted Walking Stick
Equipment [4]
3x Baseball Bat
1x Ivory Bow
Event [4]
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
3x Unmasking, The
Master [20]
3x Blood Doll
1x Erciyes Fragments, The
2x Frontal Assault
1x Giant's Blood
1x Haven Uncovered
1x Hungry Coyote, The
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Library Hunting Ground
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rotschreck
3x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
3x Sudden Reversal
Reaction [12]
1x Eagle's Sight
3x On the Qui Vive
2x Precognition
1x Read the Winds
2x Spirit's Touch
3x Telepathic Misdirection
Any chance that you're writing a report how you won the tournament?
ReplyDeleteSure! In a way it game down to a coin flip... (although my play did have some to do with it)
ReplyDeleteBut in general, the game was a mess!
My friend Sonam had exact same score as me, so it was a coin flip who would be top seed. I won the flip, so here was the seating.
Adam Hulse -> Dave Zopf -> Jason Wolfson -> Matt Morgan -> Sonam Adinolf
Adam: Ghoul ally deck
Dave: Group 4 Kiasyd
Jason: Group 4 Kiasyd!
Matt: Nephandi ally
Sonam: Giovanni Bruise-bleed (unique cold aura - thrown sewer lid combo!)
If Sonam won the flip, we (adam and sonam) would have switched seats. I chose to be Sonam's prey because I figured the Asanbonsam Ghoul ability was a perfect counter to cold aura (ghoul ability happens first).
Dave and Jason had a HUGE contestion game which my prey Dave was at the losing end. Great for me except that I'm a slow deck.
So game started! Dave sat around with transfers while Jason brought out guys. They contested one minion. Funny enough, not only if Dave and Jason were switched (Dave would be winning the contesting war), but Dave did not have much in the way of combat while Jason did. So Jason bled into Matt, and while some bleeds got though or were bounced, some combat happened, but did not turn out too well for Matt, due to a combination of Earth Swords and Entombment (Dave just had S: CE).
So Jason and Matt kicked the crap out of each other while I built up and duked it out a little with Sonam. Smiling jack hit the table, made people lose some blood. I allowed it to burn so that Matt could live (but sonam had to take the action). This was key.
Sonam only had one deflector up after that action a huge bleed came around the table and Matt bounced to Sonam. Sonam played a deflection, which Matt DI! This put Sonam at 1 pool which promptly got him ousted due to a Mirror walk bleed by Matt.
Jason actually died after that, with too much attrition with Matt and my Smiling Jack. So now its my prey with a VP, Matt with a VP, but me with top seed. In round 3 I had a lot of trouble with Matt's Netphandi. So I made a deal with Dave that I would go very slow on him and let him kill matt. He would get 2Vp and then when I kill him I would have 2Vp with top seed, winning the tourney. If it would get close to time then the deal would have to change of course but I was still following the Play to Win rule. And it was the safest way.
My round games were much more about my play, especially with key Frontal Assaults and Ghouls running around and hitting things. This one I really just played the table and played tight.
But thanks!